🦔A developer found that loading the AliExpress homepage triggers hidden scripts that use your browser's audio system to fingerprint your computer. The scripts generate a silent waveform, run it through your audio hardware, and measure the output to create a unique identifier for your machine. No sound plays, no permission is asked, and it runs even when the page is sitting idle. The scripts were identified as part of Alibaba's browser security tooling. Firefox lets you disable it. Brave blocks it by default. Most people have no idea it's happening. My Take A guy found this because his Bluetooth headphones started acting weird when he opened AliExpress. He dug into it, found hidden scripts running silent audio through his browser to fingerprint his machine, and realized the site had been doing it on every page load without any indication. If his headphones hadn't glitched he never would have looked, and no regulator or audit caught it either. The EFF has a free tool called Cover Your Tracks that shows how trackable your browser is, and based on everything going on right now with data collection I'd run it. Hedgie🤗